Amazing. In the Netherlands it is free. You get a midwife, hospital and medical staff when required. You get a box of goods for the first days of baby care. We get 4-6 weeks paid leave as a father and 16 as a mother. There is help in the house for about a week to take care of baby and mother and do checkups.
The only thing you pay a symbolic amount of money for is some to borrow tools like bath chairs.
Probably some pain meds require a contribution but you never pay the whole thing.
Children up until 18 are insured on your own insurance policy without additional fees.
It must be hell to live in a cold place as the US where everything costs tons of money out of pocket.
The only thing you pay a symbolic amount of money for is some to borrow tools like bath chairs.
Probably some pain meds require a contribution but you never pay the whole thing.
Children up until 18 are insured on your own insurance policy without additional fees.
It must be hell to live in a cold place as the US where everything costs tons of money out of pocket.